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Kickstart your day with the best classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Wed 25 Mar 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Berceuse Op.16

    Performer: Xavier Phillips. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 107.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 46 in B Major, Hob. I:46: II. Poco adagio

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 2: Il filosofo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Sinfonietta (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Korngold, E.W.: Sinfonietta, Op. 5 / Violin Concerto, Op. 35.
    • Dorian.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach: Violin Concertos in A Minor & E Major etc..
    • Hyperion.

  • Will Todd

    The Call of Wisdom

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: James Sherlock. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Todd: The Call of Wisdom.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for string orchestra in E minor, Op.20

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quintet in B minor Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • Pejacevic: Chamber Works.
    • CPO.
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Pentatone.

  • Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Concerto pour violon No. 9 en sol majeur, Op. 8: Allegro

    Performer: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre Bernard Thomas.
    • Le chevalier de Saint-Georges : Concertos pour violon.
    • Arion.
    • 01.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    It was a lover and his lass

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.

  • Percy Grainger

    Green Bushes

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.
    • Grainger: Power of Love (The).
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Preludes for Piano: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Music Arranger: Irwin Kostal.
    • De Bach à Bernstein - Labèque.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    St Paul Op.36 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36, Pt. 1: No. 1, Overture.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 26 in D major, K 537 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos / Perahia, English CO.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

    Performer: David Blackadder. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Elin Manahan Thoms: Eternal Light.
    • Heliodor.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Chau Paris

    Music Arranger: Claudio Constantini. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Roberto Koch. Performer: Claudio Constantini.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle in A minor Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Harri Mäki. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • BIS.

  • Ernest John Moeran

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt: Allegretto deciso, alla marcia)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Raphael Wallfisch plays British Cello Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in F major Op.17 for horn and piano; III. Rondo

    Performer: Radovan Vlatković. Performer: Alessio Bax.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 in G Major: I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 4.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Malcolm Williamson

    Travel Diaries, New York: V. Broadway (Midnight)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Malcolm Williamson: Travel Diaries, New York: V. Broadway (Midnight).
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria ... virgo serena a 4

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Josquin Des Prez: Ave Maria, Virgo Serena.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No. 12 in B-Flat Major, K. 172: I. Allegro spiritoso

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
    • Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. III.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 116.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande Op.46 (At the Castle Gate)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Sibelius - Incidental Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Mar 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3